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Date: 2014-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: Arabic
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استخدام الحياة?Istikhdam al-Hayat
Istkhdām al-ḥayāh
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Istkhdām al-ḥayāh
Author:
أحمد ناجي?Aḥmad Nājī
Ahmed Naji
Ahmed Naji
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: Arabic
Synopsis: "Set in modern-day Cairo, Using Life follows a young filmmaker, Bassam Bahgat, after a secret society hires him to create a series of documentary films about the urban planning and architecture of Cairo.... The Society of Urbanists, Bassam discovers, is responsible for centuries of world-wide conspiracies that have shaped political regimes, geographical boundaries, reigning ideologies, and religions. It is responsible for today's Cairo, and for everywhere else, too. Yet its methods are subtle and indirect: it operates primarily through manipulating urban architecture, rather than brute force. As Bassam immerses himself in the Society and its shadowy figures, he finds Cairo on the brink of a planned apocalypse, designed to wipe out the whole city and rebuild anew." (Publisher)
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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استخدام الحياة?Istikhdam al-Hayat Istkhdām al-ḥayāh |
2014-00-00 |
أحمد ناجي?Aḥmad Nājī Ahmed Naji |
منشورات مرسوم،?Manshūrāt Marsūm |
978-977-6483-02-6 | 240 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | |||
Using Life | 2017-11-00 | Ahmed Naji | University of Texas Press (Emerging Voices from the Middle East) | 978-1-4773-1480-7 | $21.95?$: US dollar |
xi+ 196 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel |
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- Review [English] by Teresa Pepe (2019) in Strange Horizons, 7 October 2019